How To Boot Into Windows 10 Safe Mode On Your PC [Tutorial]

Here’s how you can boot into Windows 10 Safe Mode on your PC. If you’re experiencing failures due to some incompatible installations, such as system drivers or apps, Safe Mode is your savior.

You may have come across plenty of discussions around the Internet regarding Windows 10, mostly on how Microsoft has revamped its latest OS, setting it apart from all the earlier offerings. With so many changes in Windows 10, Microsoft has also slightly changed the way we enter into Safe Mode as well.

Whether you have moved onto Windows 10 just now, or have done so when it was initially released last year, you may encounter issues that can only be fixed by putting your computer into Safe Mode.

This is where our following guide will come in handy. In a detailed step-by-step guide below complete with screenshot illustrations, we will show you how to reboot your computer running Windows 10 into Safe Mode in order to fix problems that are otherwise not possible to fix. We will be walking you through two different methods here, with first one using Advanced Startup options while the second one using System Configuration utility in Windows for booting into Safe Mode.

So without any further delay, here’s how to enter Safe Mode on your Windows 10 computer.

Advanced Startup Options

Step 1: To begin, right-click the Start button and move the mouse over Shut down or sign out, which will reveal a bunch of power options.

Step 2: Hold down the Shift key and click the Restart option. This should reboot your computer straight into the Advanced options screens.

There’s also an alternative way of accessing the Advanced options. Launch the Settings app (Windows key + I) and navigate to Update & security > Recovery. You should now see an Advanced startup banner followed by a Restart now button. Click it.

Step 3: Your Windows 10-powered machine will now boot into an option-laden screen as seen below. Here, select Troubleshoot to continue.

Step 4: Next, click Advanced options followed by Startup Settings and then click on Restart.

Step 5: Your PC will now automatically boot into another Startup Settings screen, with a bunch of startup options listed, each accompanied by a number. To reboot into Safe Mode simply hit the ‘4’ key or ‘F4’ key on your keyboard to initiate the restart. If you wish to boot into Safe Mode with Networking, press ‘5’ or ‘F5’.

System Configuration Utility

Step 1: Right-click the Start button and select Run.

Step 2: Type msconfig in the Run box and hit Enter.

Step 3: Once System Configuration is launched, navigate to the Boot tab and check the Safe boot option under Boot options. Make sure Minimal is also selected as the sub-option. Additionally, if you wish to maintain network connectivity in Safe Mode, check the Network option.

Step 4: Once the options are all set, hit the OK or Apply button, and restart your computer, which should now boot straight into Safe Mode.

It is important to note that once you’re in Safe Mode, you will have to instruct Windows to not boot into Safe Mode upon next reboot. To do this, simply launch System Configuration again and ‘uncheck’ the Safe boot option.

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When you switch a Windows 10 computer on, it places a flag in the registry. This flag is removed when the logon screen displays. In other words Windows knows it has started up correctly. If you switch the computer off in the middle of a boot, next time it starts, it sees the flag in the registry is already present and realises there is a problem booting and will offer you the advanced start up options….

Montel G

Interesting to know! Duly noted.

Thanks!

Onn Ricky

What happens When Windows 10 completed boot up and unable to detect the keyboard and mouse. I won’t be able to carry out the steps as listed above.

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Sachin

Nah we should not be having help to getting into Windows safe mode come on Redmond pie

Noam Katz

Microsoft is dumb because how are you supposed to get into safe mode when you can’t even get into Windows?! I’ve had updates cause a neverending spinning circle of white dots on a blue screen and the only way to get into safe mode was to shut off my laptop while it was booting up and then hope for a recovery option when I turned it back on.
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Obidad

Hold down the shift key and press the start button

Davey Williams

GREAT tip Koen, thank you!

Anonymity_x

Thank you. I got a black screen after Windows 10 upgrade. They say update the display drivers could be a solution. However, press F8 can’t bring me into the safe mode. I followed the instructions to enter the safe mode to update the drivers by OSToto Driver Talent. The black screen was gone. Thank you so much.

john peter fundador

In my Windows 10 Lenovo Laptop, shift keys are not functioning…sometimes the special characters are displaying even if I typed the number button without pressing Shift key